Letters to Dad

                                                   April 9 Dear Jack--     Hope you got your money OK--Chick was busy painting the kitchen on Sunday so he didn't get into town.     Finny has decided to come home on Thursday.  I hope the Dr. knows what he is doing letting him come home.  And I sure hope he improves, or we will all be nuts.     If you get a chance to call Grandma before you got out--you better call. And don't fail to write often as you know we will worry.  How will your mail get to you the fastest?---airmal?     I had a letter from don on Sat.--everything seems the same--but I think he is getting tired.  He will probably be more tired when the monsoons hit.      Bob worked on sat up at Glasses plant-but he says eh doesn't think he wants to work up the...

Feb 20 Dear Jack-     Well- after a week of no snow-here it is snowing again, and I thought spring was here.  Bud Law is home for 25 days and he is sure hoping you get home before he goes--so you can the the town read-but- I told him I didn't know whether I would let you two go out together or not.     Mac Marshall is home, too.  Chick was talking to him down street.  He was in the New Hebrides & Marianas.  He is home for 30 days.  He told Chick he wanted to come out of this war clean, not like his Dad did in the last war.  You know that is what is wrong with his Dad.  Chick asked him how he knew and he said his mother told him before he left.  He has saved $1000 besides what he sent his mother.  Chick said the way he talked he likes the Krenz girl but doesn't know how Rev. Krenz would feel about it, as he hasn't the education she has.  Chick told him it isn't the education that makes the man.  He is a Petty ...